Optical/Optometric Assistant Instructor-Lamson Institute
Ms. Zapata prepares Optical students for entry level positions administrative procedures related to the medical office, clinic, hospital setting, including patient processing and assessment. She was first trained as an Ophthalmic Technician in 1992. Her experience includes , medications, visual acuity, confrontation visual fields, amsler grid, pupils, motility, manual & automatic lensometry, manual & automatic keratometry, Auto refractor, Retinoscopy, Refractions, Optical coherence tomography, Humphrey Visual Field, Goldman Visual fields, A-Scans, minor procedures, sterilize instruments using autoclave, pre-operative & post- operative instructions given to patient, prepare injections for Ophthalmologist / residents, order medications, order supplies and stock rooms.